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It’s only the first day of September 2015, and the Union County Master Gardeners are already planning their 2016 Home and Garden Show. About a dozen-and-a-half of them posed yesterday evening for photographs they intend to use to promote their show next April. Plants loaned by the Lowes garden center, a vintage pickup truck, brightly […]
Since this is Faulkner Month in New Albany with emphasis on Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying, Luncheon with Books will continue that theme. On Tuesday, September 15, at the Jennie Stephens Smith Library Frank Madden will present “Customs of the South – Death and Dying”. The program will begin at noon. Union County Retired Teachers […]
The New Albany Board of Aldermen will hold a public hearing about its proposed 2015-2016 fiscal year budget at its regular monthly meeting Tuesday, Sep. 1, 2015. The proposed budget calls for no increase in property taxes, but does anticipate additional revenue from sales and tourism taxes. During the fiscal year that will end September 30, […]
As part of the Literary Fest and William Faulkner Month in New Albany, Entries are now being accepted for the upcoming juried exhibit Faulkner and Folk Art, opening Sunday, September 13, 1:30-3:30, at the Union County Heritage Museum in New Albany. Categories for art work includes pieces depicting William Faulkner the man and pieces interpreting […]
Today’s run-off election resolved all nominations except, perhaps, for one. Mississippi election law requires a run-off election if no candidate receives an absolute majority of votes in a primary election. David Kitchens and C. J. Bright were the top two of several candidates running for the Democratic nomination for Union County District Three Supervisor in […]
The following students at New Albany Elementary School received the Bullpup Pride Recognition Award because of their positive behavior during the week of August 17. Pictured in no particular order are: Melanie Shannon Public Relations New Albany Schools
In May of this year, a murder trial was moved from Clay county to Union County on a change of venue. Following the trial, Circuit Judge Jim Kitchens wrote the letter below, informing Union County citizens of the high-calibre performance of Circuit Clerk Phyllis Stanford and Sheriff Jimmie Edwards, and their offices, as well as […]
Few counties in Mississippi have held more elections during the last 15 months than Union County. Tomorrow’s Union County primary run-off elections — Democrat and Republican — will, by our count, be the seventh time voters here have gone to the polls since June 2014. A small army of poll workers and the half-dozen election […]
Danny Jordan and Benny Rakestraw will have served, between them, a half century on the Union County Board of Supervisors when they retire in January. Mississippi county supervisors are elected from districts, formerly called “beats,” and the county boards elect their own presidents. Jordan will have served a little more than 30 years as District 3 […]
New Albany – Get your best black dress ready because we are going into mourning in New Albany, Mississippi. Don’t cry yet, because it’s not a death but a study of death customs in the south, as well as that all time famous William Faulkner novel, As I Lay Dying. September has been officially named […]
New Albany – Workmen repairing the dome of the Union County Courthouse are repairing the cupola atop the dome in place. It was originally believed that the cupola, approximately 25 feet high with its gold eagle, would have to be removed completely and repaired at ground level. This would have involved considerable risk, including catastrophic […]
UPDATE: August 21, 2015 : Roger Browning returned our call early today, stating that he “has nothing to say at this time” about his disqualification in the Superintendent race. UPDATE: 9:30 PM August 20, 2015 Union County Republican Chairman Clay Hardy has told NAnewsweb that the party has, at this time, made no decision as to […]
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